From the article: Satellite-tracking systems registered the location of the controversial 49,000 tonne Lafayette and six attendant trawlers north-east of Norfolk Island on Friday, Greenpeace said. The Russian-flagged, Chinese-owned vessel is five times the size of the Dutch factory trawler Margiris, which was banned from Australian waters in 2012. It should be very worrying to the region that a vessel of the size of Lafayette would target fish in the South Pacific, Greenpeace campaigner Nathaniel Pelle said. ... A converted tanker capable of processing 1500 tonnes of fish a day, Lafayette is a flagship of the Hong Kong-based Pacific Andes fleet. It was a focus of a 2012 investigation by the US Centre for Public Integrity, which found giant fishing vessels responsible for a 90 per cent decline in the South Pacific jack mackerel fishery. smh.au/national/monster-fishing-ship-in-pacific-east-of-australia-20140216-32tr3.html
Posted on: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:12:03 +0000
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